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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1965)
Kitrntn caxcttettmei. Thursday. Octotm u. ihi Africa Calling a tcrorr tmoh nit kcam cast Br NELS ANDCRSON (The following- It Inter from Nels Anderson to Newt Oliarra lellm of the acricul tural conditions In Mirtr. Ai rice, v hor the former Morrow county auent U now wxwktnj with the Near East rounda tioni. It iremi funny to be to far from home and find many of the same problems we have In Morrow county. The only thing U that the solution I much more painful and slow than 1 ever imagined it could be. The poo pie here are much more ready for the help, though than the mechanics are act up for There are many different croupa from many different countries all with some kind of a program and few of them co ordinated. and manv surely dup Heated. Of course. I have been here only a short time and may. be I can see manv thing now that I won't see after I Ret used to the way thine are done In the circles in which I work. This morning as I stood out tinder a gowya tree near the village of N Dounga it was like a quiet day In Morrow county with only the sounds of some tints across the cuivette (valley!. 1 thought of hunting season opening in a few days at home and wished I were standing under a big pine in the Blue Mountains waiting for a buck to come along. It was only a hundred or so in the shade, a cool day. Later as we went across the cuivette running some lines for boundaries of a school which we are building to teach a group or young Mgerrienes the prin ciples of farming, the farmers were beginning their millet har vest, the main crop of this area. It Is the staple food that Dro vides stock for soup. mush, and bread. Millet here is much dif ferent than the millet I was used to In the Midwest. It resembles the cattail with the "tail- being me head or seed. Many of the reads axe two feet long and con tain an enormous amount of seed. The farmers cut the heads off one by one, tie them in a bundle, earn ing them, on thek heads to the granary or to town to sell or trade for something they need. I don't know yet how long it takes to get the whole crop in 1 I! ft have the hump like Pi ah ma but are smaller and Ws I Why although all animal I have seen, other than some camel, are in real good fkh. This Is the end of the rainy seaHon and the era Is fctill creen and plentiful. It will be about nine months, however, be fore it will rain acaln. and I eucm things get a little on the poor side by then. You see, they don't think at tout putting up anv hav or forage. The Peace Corp bovs are doing some good vvoik with fcilace which mi:ht catch on. The Siiool being set up as one of the first of our projects will attempt to tram farm bo who want to learn some good iwtnciples of farm Inc. The boys will stay at the M-hool for one year going through the process of rawing crojm, fencing, caring for live Mock, doing routine farm work. The main project for these boys will be to teach them now to use oxen and donkey drawn Im plements Each will be sold on credit a pair of oxen for his use at the end of the training. Life here Is Quite Interesting but awfully dull. We are In our newly remodeled home and are quite comfortable even though we would complain quite loud- Iv at home if we had to put up with some of the things. We have had dozens of workmen around and still have an outside crew, for the hours they have put in so far we should have a palace to live in. but I hear thev only get 12 cents per hour so I don't blame them for not hurting themselves. They are building us a fancy 8-foot wall around our yard. The concrete here Is kind of like mud. The cement looks real poor and the sacks are marked "Made in USSR." They mix it with a fine sand, no gravel or pebbles. I guess it gets by! Our house is mixed right in among the Afxiciane mud "ban-1 country and brtnn In u peddle door to Ur. There ar hund red of ttonkcv hauling wood, and every Imaginable thing. I am amared at the ue the native make of their head In ram In thing. One cannot go an where, and I mean an where regardless f the mot remote areas, tut what one will run In to someone or srvip of women coining aero a field with nvr. mou load f hide. veritable, meat, fuh, cloth, pottery, wa ter, millet, iteanut, uliie. r.n, wood or tou name It. lite farm era who have their millet field away from the river ratry all of their water to their thatch hut from the rive, sometime several mile away. AH on their heads! I have seen little cut with a 4 gallon tpen pall full of water on their heads without kpltling a drop. There are some iln well out In the country rMHHUlly at a village. A sur vev of wells of the- country ha recently boon made and plans are to dig or drill more wells in strategic spots If It seem ad visable. There Is absolutely no electric power out In the country so rver thing must be done bv hand. They do not understand motors or engines but are not larv to do things the hard way. Sometimes I think It would be better to leave them to do things as they have always done, but there are the more iogrclve I that want everyone to live their wav. I gues. There U a lot of room for con iservation here. They are lucky th.it the land grows back to grass quickly so they get some cover. Their summer fallow is land thev abandon for six or seven years, then go back and clear it for crop again as it builds back up to raise a crop. What we couldn I do with a few shiploads of fertilizer and sprinkler sv stems in this sand and heat! The Niger river Is Just running ty. doing no one any good other than for the natives to wash their clothes. Well I have rambled on here for quite a while, especially In mv poor hunt and peck style of typing. I am surely missing the good secretarlel services I was used to at home. But I might get to be a fair typist before my time is up here. No doubt I will learn to do other things also. I hope you are feeling well and are not having too bad of a summer. Fall is there now. I guess. I think this heat will get fcfs llwm Hitanders, 26 f o 6 League Standings W L 0 4 cos" so we are exposed to their , -old'' before we leave it behind every day life. The town Is laid us. I always thought a good sweat was good lor anyone out quite oddly. There are few areas where the houses are grouped for Europeans or the officials of the Nigerrien gov ernment You will find the poor est to the richest all on one street. We have a constant parade of Further on. we saw herders I naked youngsters bv our eate with large flocks of cattle that all day long as well as an as- are not bad quality considering sortment of whatever you might everything. They are, I would imagine would be on the loose, say. Zebus, although I haven't We see camels loaded with wood heard what they call them. They sticks which they cut out in the r but it gets quite exhausting. I change my clothes at least twice a day and average three showers a day. And the hot sea son has not yet arrived! Oh. well. I will never complain about the cold again, maybe. Best regards, Nels Anderson Sherman Co, Wahtonka lleppner But us Madias Urar.t Union Bums' inlanders apparently im the brunt ol the lleppnet lllgh's pentup diappotntinenl at suffering two league losses rri.Uy when the Muotang loot bail team punished the inland ers there, i'u to 6. It was rather an astonishing victory for the home eleven, sup porters of whom had evintted a real tough battle, lite inlanders couMnt com within denting distance of the goal line except on the game's lat play from scrimmage when they scored on a N yard run against lleppner's sophomores and Junior. Ilalftime found the score only 6 0, the touchdown coming in the second quarter when Tim lriscoi punched over from the two yard line, t.'nd Mark Brown set up the touchdown when he caught an aerial and. with the run. made It a 33yard gainer. The point try was no good. The Mustangs kUked the III landers in the kilts again early In the third quarter, lleppner kicked olf to Burns, but on the first play from scrimmage, the inlanders fumbled. Alert Dave Uray picked up the fumble on the Burns 40 and ran all the way to score. Mark Murray kick ed the extra point, and It was 1 j 0, while the small contingent of lleppner rooters cheered loudly- Lightning struck again for the Harney county eleven late in the same period. Drlscoll ran off the kft side of the line and scored from 25 yards out. Murray miss ed the placeklck conversion, but the lleppner gang had a 19 0 lead and their stock was still soaring. In the fourth quarter 1iImII taught a p from Jim tkher ty and made It good for .H yard and a touchdown again! the x; n dlsinayetl Soot. Murray kicked the point, ami this brought the count lo an amaring Mo. toach Jim IVlter used all hU reserves In the late stages of the game and Just a few sec ond were left when the Ml land 7- tttlle (he f yard play thnt j i-retriiiru wr conical iroin tie 'log a shutout, lleppner look the i Mt koir alter ihi score, but the i miai gun soumicti on the run 1 back. i v i I "! gun nwium on ine run- J u V f V I1" Mustangs dominated play , U f I j throughout the game despite the ' - J I fact that more lhan I.) yard I WV, j" (T-WJ ul penalties were whistled " -H ll? Blnt them lo 13 yards for " . a MARX BROWN, senior end of the Heppnet Mustang. st up the first touchdown 09010 t Burns there Friday when he caught a pass that was food for 35 yards. Brown will b la action against Sberntan County friday In the last league gam and final bom aom of the season. (C-T Photo). Burns. Mickey Kindle terforined In gieat fashion on defense with 11 tackles to his credit, and Mark Murray wa at unit equally a effective with 12. Cray also was rrcuitcd by his coach with an exceptionally good game. "lie didnt make so many tackles but he pounded good and nar.i." loach letter said The coach fell that out of the secret cf lleppner's success against Burns was use of a 4 man defensive line, Inspired by a scouting report on the inland er. Tnelr blockers would come through the line and find they had no one to block," he said. ln both offense and defense the Mustangs made very few mistakes, and the roach said that the team looked better than it did against Wahtonka, where me. ards on 12 carries for a 66 average and Jim Jacobs added 30 on nine carries for a 4 0 average. Ken Morgan made 21 on seven trie for a 30 mark. The coach moved Murray to a linebacker sjmt for this one and placed Kindle and Nalbro It played a fine gan Drlscoll gained NO Cardinals Top Weston; To Play at Fossil Friday JUST ARRIVED! SUITS FOR HOMECOMING AND CASUAL AND WINTER WEAR Designed For The YOUNG MAN! .(Good Selection 1 fx- m - 1 n &1 For Dad, Too!) FROM YOUR STORE OF PERSONAL SERVICE To $7500 THESE WERE MADE TO SUIT TOUI GARDNER'S MEN'S WEAR MARJ and LeROT GARDNER HEPFNER Oregon Hunters Eye Elk Season Opening Saturday An army of hunters, some where around 60,000 strong, will De neaaing xor tne high, tim bered areas of the state this week-end to hunt the big game animal many feel to be the most challenging trophy in Oregon. Saturday morning, October 30, marks the opening of the gen eral elk season throughout the state, which Is scheduled to ex tend through November 14 in the Roosevelt elk areas west of u. b. Highway 97, and through iwvraiuct in me nocKy ivioun rain eiK areas east of U. S. High way 97. Hunters are reminded by the game commission that if thev hunt for Roosevelt elk they must have the Roosevelt elk tag, or if tney nuni lor Kockv Mountain elk they must have the Rocky xviuumaiii eitt lag. buh elk only will be le?al game In all of the Roosevelt elk hunting area and in the northeastern portion of the KocKy Mountain elk area. Eith er-sex-elk may be taken on the soutneastern Oregon ranges. In me duii em nunting areas, the bag limit is one bull elk with anuers longer than the ears. In eastern Oreeon. either -spy. elk hunting is available in the wneeier, Grizzly, Ochoco, Maury, noruisiae, iooKout Mountain Murderer's Creek. Beulah. Mai heur River, and Silvias units ah otner units in eastern Ore gon are restricted to huntinz bull elk only during the general season. Hunters are reauesteri to rhAri ine Dig eame regulations car. fully for seasons, bag limits. and other rules for the hunt. Any bull elk taken must have the antlers with scalp and eyes attached while the carcass of the animal is in possession irr thp neia or rorest or on any high way or road of the state. Killes that do not meet the minimum requirements are not legal for elk hunting. Minimum requirements include a rifle of at least .25-inch bore diameter and developing at least 1200 foot pounds or energy at 100 yards. Elk hunting rifles must meet Dotn or these requirements. FFA Chapter Host In Soil Judging Heppner chaDt e r. Future Farmers of America, will be host to the district soil judging con test Satuday, October 30, at 10 a.m. Five of the chapter members will also Judge in the contest. Ralph Richards, conservationist of the Heppner Soil and Water Conservation district, is in charge. With the conference title sew ed up, lone High's football team might have sufierrd Just a bit of a letdown against Weston High at lone Friday afternoon. but they gencraied enough steam to win a 19 0 v ictory. In the first half, things didn't look too good for the Cards. Weston came to lone In the hope of upsetting the champs, and for a time it appeared they might do if lAlhough ihey couldn t break into the end zone to score, they had the ball on 41 plays before Intermission to only 17 for lone. Mark Halvorsen got his team on the scoreboard in the first quarter when he went off tackle and rambled 86 yards to touch down territory. The point try was no good, and the 6-0 score stood until the third quarter. At one time Weston had the ball within two yards of scoring, but the team was penalized 15 yards and lost the opportunity of going over. lone developed a case of turn bilitis. In one sequence the Cards fumbled and Weston re covered. The lone team then held the visitors who punted, and the Cards tumbled a sec ond time with a Weston recov ery. Holding the visitors once more, they punted and an lone player touched the bail on the return try, and a Weston lad re covered once more. On this oc casion the Weston team went to the lone 15, but was stopped there. In the second half, the Cards looked more like the team that has been rolling over recent op position. Baker scored from 30 yards out when he skirted left end, and Jay Ball ran the extra point, bringing the tally to 13-0. Halvorsen added the final touchdown In the lourth when he went over from the two fol lowing a Cardinal drive down field. lone ended with a total of 210 yards gained, 226 on rushing and H on passing, while Wes ton had 1K6, 112 on ruling and 71 on passing. Completing the regular sea son, the Cardinals travel to Fos sil Friday for a 7:30 game under the lights against Wheeler Coun ty. Their only loss of the season was the first game to non league Dufur, and they hope to keep their victory string going against Wheeler. Coach Meyers said he under stood that Crane and Mitchell are fighting it out for the lead In the southern end of the dis trict, and lone will meet the winner at some time In the fut ure to be scheduled- No Infor mation Is available on this as yet. fo In Ihe center f the line Hits dcft'tiM proved to be a goHl on. , llrpjuiir gained a total of 211 yards. Hi vn ruling and M on panning, while Hums was tidd to IUO. 73 of vvhU'h ram on nulling and ."V) tl MHiiig Heppner Runners Defeat Hilanders lleppner High's rros country tram, traveling to Hums Willi the football tram Friday, de feated the inlander runners In CToa country. 21 to 32. for their MHxmd win of the season. Ithrn of Hums ran the 2 3 mile coure In the fatest time. 13 4.1, but Tim Smith of lleppner was second at 14 07, followed by 1111 MrUod In third at 1122 and Kamlv Stlllman fourth at 14 30. I -en tile llanna was sixth at 13 II, Jim Shrrman was ninth at 1331 and KUk Wltherrlte was tenth at 13 41. AUo running for llrtp nor were Steve llaker and Allyn Wlthrrrlte. t.'lghtr-rn runners were In the dual meet. The district cross country tiiiHt will In Friday with Nyssa. Hums. Wahtonka and llrppnrr xirtiiipating at IVndlrton, stari ng at 4 pin. The top two team will go to the state meet. Wah tonka draws the favored role In the district. Examiner Coming A Prlvers License Examiner will be on duty In lleppner Tuesday. Novemler 9. 13, at the l our l house between the hours of 9:30 a m. and 3:30 P m , accordlru; to an announcement rccevird from the Urpartment of Motor Vehicles of Oregon. JOB BULLETIN Skilled & Semi-Skilled Machinists Machine Operators Tool & Dla Makers Model Makers Template & Sheet Metal Fabricators There an bnmediata, good paying jobs available right now at The Boeing Company'! Commercial Airplane Division In Renton, Washington. At Boeing, you'll work with the world leader In jet transportation, and enjoy many job advantages. Including excellent working conditions, paid vacations and holidays, share the ride plans and employee organized sports end social programs. Boeing is an equal opportunity employer. Apply in person, or write to Mr. Robert J. Farrell, Commercial Airplane Division, 8th and Logan, P. 0. Box 707 COW, Rentoa, Washington 98055. COMMERCIAL AIRPLANE DIVISION Ruby Fulleton OBRA Director Ruby Fulleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roice Fulleton, was elected a director of the girls' Oregon Barrel Racing As sociation at the convention of the association in Madras last week-end. Ruby, a sophomore In Hepp ner High School, has been an active participant In barrel rac ing and other rodeo events for several years. As director, she represents this section of Oregon on the board, which Is composed of five members. The Fulleton family went to Madras for the convention and attended a dinner following the business meeting. 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